All hail the most EPICally indulgent treat I’ve made in ages: these gluten free triple chocolate cookies!! They’re big, they’re bold, they’re packed with my favorite cocoa powder, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and have a secret ingredient that just shifts all of that good stuff up to an unbelievable level of YUM. These cookies were an unexpectedly successful baking adventure that was prompted by me realizing that I didn’t have any baked goods to give a friend I was meeting for drinks this week (looking at you, Matt!) and hastily drafting a recipe that would be fast, easy, delicious, and kid-friendly (chocolate always seems like a safe bet)! So thank…
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Gluten Free Dark Chocolate Ginger Cookies
These are INSANE. I was in shock after the first bite and utterly astounded that I had found my dream cookie y’all. These gluten free dark chocolate ginger cookies are a case study in indulgence, packed with dutched cocoa powder and chopped dark chocolate for double the chewy, gooey, chocolately goodness, and studded with sultry, rich candied ginger. The ultimate dark chocolate cookie with all of the elegance and spice of crystalized ginger gems. I cannot believe I haven’t tried this combo in cookie form before!! (I did try it in muffin form with these giant chocolate ginger muffins, but I’m now going to be trying it in all recipes…
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Giant Gluten Free Strawberry Banana Muffins
These giant gluten free strawberry banana muffins are one of my childhood favorites in muffin form! Strawberry banana and strawberry kiwi were two of my favorite fruity flavor combos as a kid, so you better believe this was one of the flavors I was most excited to bake into a giant muffin! For those of you just joining, I started creating GIANT muffin recipes over a year ago after reminiscing over the giant Costco muffins we used to eat as kids prior to getting diagnosed with Celiac. The giant muffin saga has since developed into a plethora of flavors beyond the classic Costco lot, though over the past few months…
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Gluten Free Coffee Walnut Chocolate Chunk Cookies
These gluten free coffee walnut cookies are a DREAM (and also have actual coffee in them so if you’re like me and don’t normally drink coffee at all, I’d recommend avoiding eating these after 3pm lol). They’re a massively delicious cookie, with, as stated previously, lots of coffee, vanilla, toasty walnuts, and luxurious chunks of dark chocolate (I actually chopped up the leftover dark chocolate easter eggs that we had in the kitchen and tossed them in – utterly fantastic use of Easter chocolate). These cookies take inspiration from my coffee chocolate walnut cake, that I recently made again for one of my housemate’s birthdays. There’s something incredibly elegant and…
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Gluten Free Funfetti Cookies
These gluten free funfetti cookies are a huge triumph for me – they’re big, chewy in the center, crispy on the edges, with a fantastic crunch of sprinkles throughout (basically my ideal cookie)! I’ve had a low-level dread of coming up with new gluten free cookie recipes after countless attempts over the past 15 or so years that resulted in dry, crumbly, cakey, “gluten free tasting” (if you know you know) cookies. Now, to be fair, I have come up with a few recipes in the past three years, notably my absolute go-to hazelnut chocolate cookies, or these peanut butter sandwich (nutter butter) cookies, or these tahini chocolate chunk cookies…
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Giant Gluten Free Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins
These giant gluten free oatmeal chocolate chip muffins are the first new giant muffin recipe that I’ve made in months and it feels good to get back to the giant muffin tradition! The last 5 weeks have shaken me up quite a bit and I’m thankful for friends and family who have truly supported me through unexpected challenges and disturbing events. And through their support, I’ve been able to regain my energy for getting creative and doing activities that I love, like baking and food photography. If you’re feeling down or low on energy or emotionally drained, I’m sending you comfort and support and hoping that you can get back…
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Gluten Free Mini Eggs Blondies
These gluten free mini eggs blondies are a revelation – not only are they the FIRST ever baked good I’ve made using Cadbury mini eggs, they’re also ridiculously easy, filled with indulgent browned butter, and are the perfect treat for Easter morning or for any sweet gifts you want to share with friends and family this weekend. They’re also the first thing I’ve baked back in my house in Oxford in over a month and it feels so incredibly good to get to be creative in the kitchen again. It’s certainly been a bit of a bizarre last 5 weeks with some really challenging and emotional experiences and decisions, so…
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Gluten Free Filled Strawberry Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Buttercream
New recipe alert! Gluten free filled strawberry cupcakes with my favorite cream cheese frosting! It’s been a minute since I posted a new recipe here – it’s been a wild (and VERY positive) term here at Oxford and I haven’t been doing much recipe development! The past 8 weeks have been an absolutely whirl wind: falling in love, getting Covid (and isolating with the person I fell in love with), baking lots of stuff but mostly things I’d baked before (“comfort bakes”), working more on my PhD here at Oxford as I prepare for future field work, exploring more of the UK countryside with housemates, and now at the end…
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Giant Gluten Free Chocolate Baileys Muffins
Wishing you all a wonderfully wintry December weekend up here in the Northern Hemisphere, and a gloriously sunny one down in the southern one. For those of you just joining, we started creating GIANT muffin recipes about 8 months ago after reminiscing over the giant Costco muffins we used to eat (read: devour) as kids prior to getting diagnosed with Celiac. This giant muffin saga has now consumed our every free moment (not really but it’s exciting) and we continue to create new flavors with gusto. Back to the rest of the giant muffins! So far we’ve made these giant poppyseed muffins, giant blueberry muffins, giant chocolate chip muffins, giant double chocolate muffins, giant banana…
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Gluten Free Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie Bars
These have been proclaimed the house favorite by all three of my roommates out of all the things I’ve baked so far while living here in the UK. They’re THAT good. These gluten free pecan pie bars aren’t just any old pecan pie bars, they’ve got a buttery shortbread crust, they’ve got bourbon, they’ve got chocolate, and they’ve got a so much richness that you may just fall asleep after eating one. I wanted to make a pecan pie for our belated house Thanksgiving + early Christmas dinner that we put together last Friday in our little row house here in Oxford, but after pondering making a pie crust (something…
